So today with the band, many of the Lobo football
team, the
band, media, boosters, and fans were officially introduced to Coach
Mike Locksley aka Coach Lock today.
I went
in wanting to hear what Coach Lock had to say and I
must say that I was very impressed… I’m not going to relay the whole
presser as
I’m sure it is on golobos.com or The Mtn’s website, but there were some
things
that I came away highly impressed with.
First
and foremost, the part about UNM players, fan, and
community being part of the Lock Family! I don’t have the exact quote,
but it
was something to the effect that if you mess or disrespect my family,
we are
going to have some problems! As a fan that made me feel real good…
Second
the idea of identifying who our main games are
against and having them “circled on his calendar.”
Third,
Mortar and bricks don’t make recruiting. It is
personal with him… That is real good… and another thing that got me
pumped up.
The
last being that he wanted to come to New Mexico because he
felt he could build this program up.
Now
obviously, a new coach isn’t going to come to town, have
a big press conference, and say… Well I don’t know how good, I’m going
to be,
or if we can win, or recruiting is impossible, or I’m not really down
with my
players… This is after all a press conference where Coach Locksley is
going to
try and pump up the community!
I
only had a minute or two to speak to Coach Lox as I had to
share him one on one with the rest of the media, but I will try to see
if we
can get some time to talk about different things with him soon as I
know he is
busy, but here is the short interview I had with Coach Lock.
Click here to listen
to Coach Lox
I
also spoke with AD Paul Krebs who was very interested to
check out the website and see what folks thoughts on Coach Lock.
Click here to listen
to Paul Krebs
Things that made me go Huh?
First,
I was really goading Greg Archuleta to label himself
“the enemy” in true Journal fashion (I knew Greg wouldn’t do it, he has
too
much class.) However, I did have to go Huh?? When he ask Coach if he
had some
success when would he be leaving. I just have an answer for Greg (once
again
the only scribe I truly respect) Can we let him at least get through a
practice
before we start job watching.
KOB
guy… Whenever you start a question with….” Not to
knock the current players on the team but, there isn’t a “Juice Williams” walking
through the door…”
I
think KOB guy was talking out of his butt when he asked
this question. This had to be by far the dumbest question of the day!
Especially after Coach Lock had said, if you bad mouth or disrespect my
“family”
(players and fans) we are going to have some problems…
Okay, enough negative, let’s talk about the positive! At
least for one evening (tonight) the people customers and co-workers
alike had
Lobo football on the mind. They wanted to know more about Coach
Locksley and
what he was going to bring to UNM. I’m hoping that sort of mindset will
continue to grow and that it will translate into season ticket
purchases, YAFL
ticket donations, and maybe, just maybe ApathetiQurque towards Lobo
football
can finally die off and we can be Lobo-town, for all sports!
Welcome
Coach Locksley